A lot of his relatives lived in my hometown. I went to junior high and high school with one of his grandkids.

He mentions working on a 2000 line image -- the best HD today is 1080 lines!

Technically a 1080i/p HDTV displays at 1920×1080.

Me: "It displays 1080 lines."
You: "No, technically it's 1080 lines."
Me: ". . ."

I think he's trying to say 1080p is 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels, rather than 1080 lines stacked top to bottom... ?

Don't be a weiner, I was just making an obvious comparison with the numbers. I wasn't saying you were wrong.

Actually according to Wiki he won and a carton of cigarettes.

But hey, was a lot of money back then.

You could buy like 80 cartons of cigarettes with that much money!